The price of safety: Costs for mitigating and coping with Alpine hazards

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2619-2637

  Pfurtscheller, C ^a   Thieken, A H ^b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

ALTO ADIGE; AUSTRIA; BAVARIA; GERMANY; ITALY; SWITZERLAND; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TYROL;

EID: 84886516846     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2619-2013     Document Type: Article

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